Swami Vivekananda Shishu Vihar and Kannanda Hiriya Prathamik School.
When for the first time we visited this small school in Banshankri, we knew that there was something every special about this place that will bring us back. And indeed it happened. Our National Festivals are now usually celebrated with the young bright future that is nurtured and educated in this school.
The United Provinces Annual Police Parade, was held on the Reserve Police Lines Grounds in Lucknow, the capital of United Provinces on December 11, 1948. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, taking a salute at a march past of the Mounted Police.
Sarojini’s letter to Gokhale highlighting the need for leaders to lead India to freedom:
I wonder if it is because they have no ambitions to be Leaders - 'Our Leaders' as my boys ironically call them. Now laugh: relax your solemn brain and laugh - whole heartedly as I do at the mosquito - like, malarial, malicious men who disturbed your peace, not long ago!
Her famous writings include
"The golden threshold (1905)", "The bird of time (1912)", and "The broken wing (1912)"
“The Magic Tree”, “The Wizard Mask”, and “A Treasury of Poems”
One of her most famous poems had the following lines
As early as in 1905, in the wake of the partition of Bengal, Sarojini plunged into the freedom struggle.
Sarojini Naidu was a precocious child, a 'wonder girl'. When barely twelve years old, she wrote a 1300-line poem a la 'Lady of the Lake' in six days! 'The next year, she penned an impassioned poetic drama of 2000 lines!
Sarojini Naidu was a distinguished poet, renowned freedom fighter and one of the great orators of her time. She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India). Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the governor of a state in India.
Its was 6:30 in the morning, when most of the other were enjoying the sleep of National Holiday, Sankalp volunteer were busy to get ready to catch the bus. They were full of enthusiasm and energy to go out and celebrate our National Festival. As they do every year to spread the love and patriotism around.
But a self-confident and arrogant Indira Gandhi was in for a surprise, when just a month before the elections, several prominent leaders from her Congress party, headed by the most senior minister in her cabinet, Jagjivan Ram, resigned and joined the Opposition. This sealed her fate. The resignations boosted the morale of the Opposition and encouraged the common people to shed fear and speak their minds.
There were several factors that decisively turned the Indian public opinion in the period ending 1976 and beginning 1977, against the Emergency regime in general, and Indira Gandhi in particular. The first of course was the growing disaffection among the working people - both rural and urban.
